Morning Session Chair: Sylvain Leduc, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
| 8:00 a.m. | 
Continental Breakfast | 
| 8:40 a.m. | 
Welcoming Remarks | 
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 John Williams, President, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco 
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| 8:45 a.m | 
Financial Stability and Optimal Interest-Rate Policy | 
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		Andrea Ajello, Federal Reserve Board 
		Thomas Laubach, Federal Reserve Board 
		David López-Salido, Federal Reserve Board 
		Taisuke Nakata, Federal Reserve Board
	 
Discussants:  Stephen G. Cecchetti, Brandeis International Business School 
		Lars Svensson, Stockholm School of Economics 
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Download author presentation (Ajello et al) (pdf, 436 kb) 
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Download discussion presentation (Cecchetti) (pdf, 614 kb) 
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| 10:00 a.m. | 
Break | 
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| 10:30 a.m. | 
A Macroeconomic Framework for Quantifying Systemic Risk | 
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 Zhiguo He, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business 
		Arvind Krishnamurthy, Stanford Graduate School of Business 
Discussants:  Tobias Adrian, Federal Reserve Bank of New York 
		Simon Gilchrist, Boston University 
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			Download author presentation (He et al) (pdf, 592 kb) 
		Download discussion presentation (Gilchrist) (pdf, 210 kb) 
Download discussion presentation (Adrian) (pdf, 681 kb) 
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| 11:45 a.m. | 
Lunch – Market Street Dining Room, Fourth Floor | 
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 Introduction: John Williams, President, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco 
Speaker:	Janet Yellen, Chair, Federal Reserve Board 
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Afternoon Session Chair: Òscar Jordà, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
| 1:45 p.m. | 
Forward Guidance and Heterogeneous Beliefs | 
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		Philippe Andrade, Banque de France 
		Gaetano Gaballo, Banque de France 
		Eric Mengus, Banque de France 
		Benoît Mojon, Banque de France
	 
Discussants: 
	Yuriy Gorodnichenko, University of California, Berkeley 
	William Branch, University of California, Irvine 
Download paper (pdf, 495 kb) 
Download author presentation (Andrade et al) (pdf, 348 kb) 
Download discussion presentation (Branch) (pdf, 500 kb) 
Download discussion presentation (Gorodnichenko) (pdf, 345 kb) 
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| 3:00 p.m. | 
Break | 
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| 3:15 p.m. | 
Stagnation Traps | 
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 Gianluca Benigno, London School of Economics 
		Luca Fornaro, Universitat Pompeu Fabra 
Discussants:  
		Robert Hall, Stanford University 
		Chad Jones, Stanford University 
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Download author presentation (Benigno et al) (pdf, 404 kb) 
Download discussion presentation (Hall) (pdf, 250 kb) 
Download discussion presentation (Jones) (pdf, 644 kb)
 
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| 4:30 p.m. | 
Break | 
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| 4:45 p.m. | 
An Economical Business-Cycle Model | 
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 Pascal Michaillat, London School of Economics 
		Emmanuel Saez, U.C. Berkeley 
Discussants:  
		Carl Walsh, University of California, Santa Cruz 
		Eric Swanson, University of California, Irvine 
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Download author presentation (Michaillat et al) (pdf, 2.33 mb) 
Download discussion presentation (Swanson) (pptx, 651 kb) 
Download discussion presentation (Walsh) (pdf, 101 kb) 
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| 6:00 p.m. – 7:45 p.m. | 
Reception – First Floor | 
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